Re: Memory hogs

Rik van Riel (riel@nl.linux.org)
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 22:05:11 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Claus Fischer wrote:
>
> >I just see the danger that people think it's enough to stop there and have
>
> Yes, I don't think we should stop there. I agree that handling OOM
> conditions is a task for the kernel and not for userspace.

Then could you please integrate my little task chooser
into your OOM killer?

It's a piece of code that has been tested fairly well
and only needs some minor work. The only _real_ reason
I'm asking you this is that we can't have two conflicting
OOM patches out there...

Rik -- Open Source: you deserve to be in control of your data.
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